I think it has been somewhat documented here that I started off hating (really!) Aperture and now I'm something of a cheerleader for it. Just tonight I needed about 30 photos taken on different dates of a particular construction project. Those were gathered up and placed into an album in a few seconds. I uploaded these to a gallery in very low res so an architect can decide if they are interested in purchasing a license. If they are, it will take just a few clicks to upload the gallery again in full-res files and my job is done except the paperwork. I love too that I will not have two sets of these photos sitting in folders on my hard drive cluttering up things.

I have learned enough techniques in Adjustments that I rarely need Photoshop and some of the adjustments I like better than the PS equivalents. It has been a long, hard journey, but I'm in workflow nirvana now.